The Association of Polling and Market Research Companies, on the occasion of the May 21 elections, analyzes the three reasons why the polls fell out in terms of the percentages of SYRIZA.

At the same time, they point out, among other things, that the measurements do not give the result, arguing that they “capture the moment” and at the same time express the… “wish that from now on the industry will be left to do its job without distraction”.

Their announcement in detail

“Public opinion surveys, and especially polls, are an extremely useful tool, since they capture the trends of society at a specific time. Polls do not give the result of the election. They capture the moment and every moment is different, since it is influenced by a multitude of events that happen every day, both during the pre-election period and the period that precedes it, as the citizens themselves can see by looking back at the results of the last months”

And he continues: “For many years now, this tool has been strongly contested with public statements by specific political groups, with the aim of deconstructing it. Reality demonstrated, not only in the current elections but also in the previous ones, that anyone who denies it is trapped in his own history.

This year’s elections demonstrated once again that the EXIT POLL correctly captured the electoral behavior, while the opinion polls satisfactorily record the trends of society, especially in periods of instability, at the European and global level, where structural social changes are taking place.

The only deviation in the 100% of the exit poll from the final results of the elections concerned the percentage of SYRIZA. Regarding the deviations of the pre-election polls and the exit poll, our first assessment is that they are due to:

. in the political events of the last days of the pre-election period

. in that, as shown by the exit poll data, a large number of voters (19%) chose a party on election day and

. in the case that SYRIZA voters, due to their party’s extensive questioning of the polls, did not participate in them and for this reason were underrepresented in public opinion surveys, as well as in the exit poll.

With this assumption, the weighting of the data gave a higher percentage to SYRIZA than it finally got in the elections.

Our wish is that from now on the branch will be left undivided to do its work with the conscientiousness and independence that distinguishes the members of SEDEA and with the understanding that the polls are not the result of the elections, but the recording of the trends of the society on the way to the elections”.